Edward Hirsch's strong, arresting poems have been praised from the
start of his career. Of his second book, Wild Gratitude, Robert
Penn Warren said, "I am convinced that the best poems here are
unsurpassed in our time". This, his fourth collection, contains his
finest work. From gritty, apocalyptic views of the urban Midwest to
brilliantly empathetic portrayals of Simone Weil and Hugo von
Hofmannsthal, the range of poems is at once wide and subtle. "In
the Midwest" speaks of the nightmare of abandon and decay; "From a
Train (Hofmannsthal in Greece)" is the poet's compelling view of a
timeless landscape; "The Italian Muse" is a meditation on Henry
James in Rome; "Luminist Paintings at the National Gallery"
beautifully evokes the sense of nineteenth-century American
countryside. There is an argument about transcendence in these
poems, an evocation of American spaces and European landscapes, a
quest for reconciliation to the earth as it is. Hirsch's work, as
Anthony Hecht has said, "has not only the courage of its strong
emotions, but the language and form that makes and keeps them clear
and true".
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